Tag: South Bank
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The last letter of Private Christopher “Diesel” Brown. Fallen at the Battle of Dulwich
My dearest one, I hope you are well. I write to you from a field hospital somewhere near what I believe the locals call TwoTeng. I must admit I cannot fully understand their dreadful guttural language. I’m afraid I took a bit of a nasty knock in the final skirmish and am soon to go…
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King’s Road’s day goes South in Bank robbery
The sun was shining. The breeze was blowing. People in lycra were taking selfies in Battersea Park. All seemed well with the world as The Road arrived, raring to go for the start of the season. Just one thing was missing…the opposition. Somehow, South Bank had contrived to end up instead at Haydon’s Road. Unperturbed…
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Fire in the Engine as Road dispatch South Bank
There was something in the air at a grey Dulwich Sports Ground. Quite what it was, it was hard to say, but everybody rocked up feeling a little giddy. Charlie Twyman turned up with a fresh haircut that made him look like a medieval princeling. The lesser spotted of two trees, Marky Mark Isham, made…
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‘Come with me if you want to win’: Shermanator/Goutanator axis vanquishes South Bank
“I’m a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a run-scoring endoskeleton.” D. Sherman, c. 2021. In scenes that bore no resemblance to the opening-day massacre at the antlers of the Antelopians in 2020, The Road ran riot as South Bank CC succumbed to defeat in a first match thriller. Rain was forecast for later in the…
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Keats’ Perfect Road Steamroller South Bank
With temperatures in Dulwich reaching the mid-thirties (for the less youthful members of the club: that’s over ninety degrees Fahrenheit) captain Keats somehow managed to ‘negotiate’ the toss such that the Road batted first, giving most of us some valuable time in the shade. Get him negotiating post-Brexit trade deals, I say. Vice-captain Pete nobly…
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MATCH REPORT: Road Find New Love, but Bank Break Hearts
On a glorious summer day the Kings Road ventured back to leafy Dulwich for the second week in succession, with hopes of a different outcome this week against South Bank CC. On a flat wicket Captain Brown, with his parents among the spectators, had visions of a triumphant day, and having won the toss duly…
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HONK! Goose Flies Away in Style as Road Beat South Bank
Do you feel it? That chill in the air? Do you see them? Those ominous grey clouds in the sky? Can you hear it? The howling of an imminent thunderstorm? Yes, it is late April, and King’s Road cricket is back! Déjà vu struck as for the second successive year King’s Road opened their season…
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MATCH REPORT: Wet, Wet, Wet! But there is no Sweet Little Mystery bowler for The Road as South Bank reign in the rain
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3674284 King’s Road lost by six wickets in a rain-soaked match against South Bank Cricket Club, but that does not reflect how tight the match was. In fact, going into the last over the win was up for grabs for either side, with SBCC knocking off The Road’s total with only two balls to…
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Yip-pee! Captain Brown opens account with Wonder of Wandsworth
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3668836 Now, A haiku, from Peter Jackson Eastwood: Troopers excited, The season curtain raiser, Would rain scupper it? Cocken less than pleased, But Christopher adamant, The show must go on. South Bank were the foe, And first blood to their captain, Toss lost, in to bat. TOSS: SBCC win the toss, and elect to…
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Match Report: Baby Bear Chris Brown bowls KRCSC to commanding win over South Bank CC
Full Scorecard: http://kingsroadcsc.play-cricket.com/website/results/3161357 Kings’s Road, nicknamed “The Beards” this season, took the battle to South Bank CC at Battersea Park on the first day of the 2017. Under new leadership from Daniel Sherman, members of The Road were found out of their beds before midday and already steam-rolling into the nets at Battersea for a…